Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda

The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) was a Rwandan Hutu rebel group which was founded in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo on 30 September 2000 as an amalgamation of the DRC-based anti-Rwandan government Hutu militias. During the Second Congo War, the FDLR sided with Joseph-Desire Kabila and Laurent Kabila's government against the Rwandan-backed Congolese rebel groups, and it came to have 7,000 fighters by 2007. The group was divided into factions, but it managed to kill hundreds of eastern Congolese civilians in waves of terrorist attacks.